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Crack The Code

22nd April 2021| 4 mins |Kirsty Burrage

It really pays to learn about innovations in carton printing. Rotech Machines explains how the knowledge can provide solutions and serve businesses well.

5 Reasons Why Offline Coding is Ideal for Luxury Packaging

25th June 2019| 2 mins

Coding luxury products online may be preferable, but due to the very nature of luxury packaging it isn’t always the best way to ensure high-quality, consistent results – even for highly automated manufacturing and packing operations.

Calculating The Cost of Coding

23rd April 2019| 6 mins

The term COO (cost of ownership) is all-important in the world of coding, where the price of a machine isn’t a reflection on its overall lifetime cost.

Luxury Brands Sitting Pretty with Codes

1st March 2019| 5 mins |Kirsty Burrage

Premium products such as cosmetics, perfume and luxury food rely on beautifully designed packaging to reflect the quality of their product and achieve their shelf appeal. Quality is paramount and the luxury category tend to favour clean, minimalistic packaging over busy designs with cluttered messaging.

Why It’s Not Too Late to Get FMD Ready

10th January 2019| 4 mins |Richard Pether

Director of coding and marking specialist Rotech, outlines the impact the FMD is set to have across the pharmaceutical supply chain.

Continuous Inkjet vs Thermal Inkjet Printing

11th August 2018| 3 mins

Continuous Inkjet (CIJ), the fast-drying, non-contact printing technology has been the preferred method to code and mark packaging for many years. It’s ability to print on to virtually any surface at high-speed meant that it was unrivalled for many applications. Until now that is.

Ten TIJ Myths Debunked

27th March 2018| 7 mins |Kirsty Burrage

In the last decade, designers of TIJ (thermal inkjet) printers have been working tirelessly to address the technology’s limiting factors, and latest generation TIJ machines will outperform CIJ in terms of cost of ownership and print quality in most coding applications. But despite a discernible shift to TIJ on FMCG lines, outdated perceptions are still deterring many operations from moving to cartridge-based technology.

Sizing Up Ready Meal Coding Trends

14th March 2018| 3 mins

Manufacturers in the growing ready meals sector are facing increasing challenges regarding the labelling and coding of convenience food products.

Taking The Complexity Out Of Traceability

12th March 2018| 3 mins

Traceability isn’t just a buzzword. It is supply chain transparency that any company operating in the 21st century food industry has to guarantee in order to thrive in an age of exacting consumer and retailer expectations and rising food safety related threats.